28 ICE RECESSION IN NEW ENGLAND 



Localities in the Connecticut Valley {Continued) 



61. — 5 miles S of Windsor, Vt., bluff on the brook S of Ascutney- 

 ville, between the highway and the Connecticut River. 

 Plain of sedimentation. 

 4 feet gravel. 

 2 feet sand and silt. 



Yarve sediments, silt in the upper half, sand in the lower half. 

 25 feet glacial gravel. 

 Bed rock. 



Series measured: 6601-6662, (6608-6638). 



In the same bluff, a little to the east, the section is 



essentially different because of disturbances and down- 



slidden horizons. 



Number 6601 is bottom varve. 



62. — 3 miles NW of Claremont, N. H., bluff on the highway, 

 just W of the junction of the Sugar River, the railroad, 

 and the highway. 



The material is silty. The thickness of the varves varies from 

 6 inches to 2>2 feet. Depth of the deposit is unknown. 



Series measured: (66 13-6631). 



63. — Z/4 miles NW of Claremont, % mile N of the railroad 

 bridge across the Sugar River, where the railroad crosses 

 Walter Brook. 



Several measurements were carried out in slides in 

 the deep brook ravine as far as yi mile NNE of the rail- 

 road as well as in the railroad banks N and S of the brook. 

 600 yards NNE of the railroad the profile was like this: 

 Plain of sedimentation. 

 15 feet sand. 



Yarve silt to sand with thin winter layers, varves 6806-7073. 

 Varve clay to silt with very good lamination, varves 6642- 



6805. 

 Yarve silt, somewhat sandy, with several slidden zones. 

 Thickness of varves from 2 inches to 2 feet. About 30 varves 

 measured but not connected with the normal curve. 

 6 feet talus down to the brook. Depth to substratum probably 

 inconsiderable. 



